Thursday, July 9, 2009

Twins (1989)

Everything about "Twins" is set-up in the casting of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito as twins separated at birth. It's an OK '80s brainless comedy with a busy subplot involving hitman, a stolen engine of some kind, and any reason for Ahnuld to flex his muscles and DeVito to be scummy. It's not as funny as I remember seeing it at age 15, but it's not bad. It is what is -- a teaming up of the 1980s' biggest action star and its shortest star. The best joke is that Schwarzenegger is the innocent virgin, unaware of the world's sins. In real life, his track record for womanizing is ... well known. And DeVito -- playing the weasel, again -- by all accounts has been happily married for decades. The chemistry between the two stars in undeniable. The script? Eh. B-

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